Colorado Law - State-of-the-State

Went to the Republican post-mortem today and heard what a bunch of poopy-heads the Dems are from the minority leaders of both houses. They thought they had given the people good ideas and good candidates in the last election but if they were all that good how come their titles include the word "minority"? The question of "what are you going to do about it?" came up. I didn't hear any definitive answer.

Both of them think the all-mail-in vote fraud bill is a complete travesty, which tells me that they expect to be minority leaders into the foreseeable future unless the electorate somehow finds itself hugely betrayed and votes against the Dems at levels great enough to offset the expected fraud.

There may be hope. The Dems voted in obligations without including funding in a couple of cases amounting to some $1Bn which will need to be found pretty soon. The marijuana regulation bill includes a call for taxation which the Republicans tried to keep low. The Dems set it up to start at around 30% combined to start with a proviso to allow it to grow to about 40% as quickly as localities can set their own rates. I bet the pot-heads thought the price would go down now that the new cartel was dealing the stuff. The tax on pot is subject to voter approval and it's unlikely to actually pass, so there will be no funding for regulation except from the general fund, which means that something will need to be cut.

Renewable energy will get a boost as the rural folk will be required to get some 25% of their juice from renewables. The urban districts somehow were exempted. Vestas, a maker of gigantic windmills, is losing $200M/quarter and needs the subsidy to keep the donations to the Dems coming.

By 2014 Obamacare will be in full cry and we'll see if the gratitude of people who pay no taxes at getting free insurance is greater than the anger of people who pay taxes at seeing their insurance rates quadruple.

There was also an education bill that called for a big increase in education spending. To what purpose was not specified. Here is a graphic that suggests that after about $6000/student/year, additional monies don't buy improved test scores

Colorado spends about $9300/student/year on K-12 public education. Note how much improvement that gets us on scores.

In secondary education, the Dems voted to give every person in the world who could show up at our door, in-state tuition at Colorado colleges and universities. Unless of course you happen to be from one of the other 49 American states. Just walk across the border and show proof you're here illegally. Don't forget to register to vote when you get your drivers license.

In Douglas County, the GOP has been pretty much having its way with the Dems and enjoys huge popular support. The leadership there recently tried to become state leader for the GOP but was told by the party membership from the more urban counties that they were not needed at the state level. The more urban counties were the ones that made Colorado such a solidly blue state in the last election, so the leadership there must know what they're talking about. That or the State GOP chairman is in fact a Democrat mole.